Corn receiving and carrying device.



No. 687,ll7. Patented'Nov. I9, I90l.

C. BURNETT. CORN RECEIVING AND CARRYING DEVICE.

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v OIIARLEY BURNETT, OF MOONS, OHIO.

CORN RECEIVING AND CARRYING DEVICE SPEGIFICATIQNforming part of Letters iPatent No. 687,117, dated November 19, 1901.

' Application filed August 18,1900. Serial No. 27,258. (No model.) i

To ctZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLEY BURNETT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Moons, in the county of Fayette and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Corn Receiving and Carrying Devices, of which the following is a specification.

' Myinvention relates to corn receiving and carrying boxes; and theobjects of my inven- ,tion are to provide a simple and inexpensive proved corn-receptacle, showing one of the.

extension side boards in place thereon; and Fig. 2 is a transverse section. of the same, showing both side boards in use.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout both views. I

In carrying out my invention I form the floor or bottom 1 of the body of my device of a bowed or concavo-convex form, said bottom or floor being formed of united curved strips of wood or from sheet metal, if desired. Ris

ing from parallel sides of the floor orbottom lare fixed side boards 2, the latter being of a substantially half-oval form and their under sides being curved to conform to the curvature of said floor, whiletheir upper straight sides terminate at points slightly above the ends of said floor or bottom. Extending trans' versely across the under side of the body thus formed and on opposite sides of the center thereof are parallel cleats 3, the latter being so arranged and of such height as to bear upon the ground and receive the weight of the receptacle. I also employ adjacent to each end of the under side of the floor or bottom 1 transverse cleatsor bars 4, the ends of which are embraced by angular strengthening-bars 5, the lower arms of which are secured to the under sides of said bars and the outer and upwardly-extending arms of which are secured to the sides 2 of the receptacle. It is obvious that I may employ other strengthening cleats or bars in addition to those herein shown and described. In each of the sides 2 I form near the lower portion thereof and in I the deeper portioii of the receptacle an open ing 6.,

As shown in the drawings, I also provide extension or additional side boards7, which are of corresponding shape in outline with the fixed side boards 2, these extension side boards being adapted when supported upon. the fixed boards 2 to form in conjunction therewith substantially oval sides. In order tension-boards in their position upon the fixed side boards, I provide each of said extensionboards with downwardly-extending arms'8,

which are secured to opposite sides of said. I

board, said arms being adapted, asindicated more clearly in Fig: 2'of'the drawings, to I embrace opposite sides of the fixed side boards 2.

In utilizing my improved corn receiving and carrying device it is obvious-that the corn as it is husked in the field orjelsewhere 0:

may be thrown into' thereceptacle and the latter carried and depositedat a pointadjacent to a wagon-bed or other desirable receptacle." The corn contained in my improved device may now readily beshovele'd therefrom into the wagon bed, or said device may be lifted until'one end is upon the bed of a wagon and then elevated until the contents are dumped into the wagon-bed. Itis obvious that in case the contents of the improved receptacle are shoveled therefrom the curved construction of the bottom of the device will facilitate the taking up of. the corn on the shovel, and thereby greatly add to the ease of removing the corn therefrom.

' In case it is desired to increase the capacity of my improved corn receivingand carwater which may accumulate in the receptaole may escape therefrom.

It will be observed that the device herein 'boards having horizontal upper sides and shown and described is exceedingly simple their lower sides curved to conform to the and strong of construction, inexpensive, and curvature of said bottom, said side boards 15 will be of great utility as a corn receiving, having drain-openings 6 and the end of said 5 carrying, and loading device. receptacle being open, of side extensions 7 Having now fully described my invention, detachably connected with said fixed side what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters boards, substantially as specified.

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In a corn receiving and carrying device, the CHARLEY BURNETT IO combination with a receptacle-body compris- In presence of ing a bottom portion curved in the direction EDWARD M. TAYLOR, of the length of the receptacle and fixed side 0. C. SHEPHERD. 

